{"slug": "have-thine-own-way-lord", "title": "Have Thine Own Way, Lord", "first_line": "Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!", "author": "adelaide-a-pollard", "author_date": "1902", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [5, 4, 5, 4], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Consecration", "Discipleship", "Holy Spirit", "Prayer"], "scripture": ["Isaiah 64:8", "Jeremiah 18:3-6", "Romans 9:21"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "tabernacle-hymns-no-2-1921", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Adelaide A. Pollard (1862-1934). The received account \u2014 NOT verified against a printing here \u2014 is that the words were written in 1902 and first published with Stebbins's music in the Northfield Hymnal with Alexander's Supplement (1907); the 1921 plate read below credits only \"A. A. P.\" and prints no date for the words, so the 1902 in author_date is that received date and not the page's. Transcribed syllable by syllable, including its hyphenation and its punctuation, from the dated page image of Tabernacle Hymns, No. 2 (Chicago: Tabernacle Publishing Co., 1921), hymn 21 \u2014 archive.org tabernaclehymnsn00chic, leaf n29 \u2014 which heads the hymn \"Have Thine Own Way, Lord.\", credits \"A. A. P.\" at the left of the staff, and prints ALL FOUR stanzas as interlinear rows under the two staves, numbered 1 to 4. Collated word for word against a second, independent scan of the same plate, archive.org tabernaclehymnsn02chic leaf n27. US public domain: written 1902, first published 1907, and the printing read is 1921 \u2014 all before 1931; the author died in 1934, so it is PD in life+70 jurisdictions as well. THE 1907 FIRST PRINTING WAS NOT OPENED; the 1921 plate is the witness. PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING FOLLOW THAT PAGE, which capitalises Thine and Thy, sets an exclamation mark after both halves of every stanza's opening couplet in all four stanzas, spells \"Saviour\" and \"Mould\" in the British forms, hyphenates \"Aft -- er\" (not \"Af -- ter\"), and prints an em-dash after both \"Pow -- er\" and \"pow -- er\" in stanza 3. Each stanza is 36 syllables, 5.4.5.4 doubled, counted against the tune's 36 soprano note-groups. Nothing is modernized and no stanza is dropped: the page prints four and all four are here.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "have_thine_own_way_lord", "total_instances": 385}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the Pot -- ter, I am the clay. Mould me and make me Aft -- er Thy will, While I am wait -- ing Yield -- ed and still.", "prose": ["Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!", "Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.", "Mould me and make me After Thy will,", "While I am waiting Yielded and still."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Search me and try me, Mas -- ter, to -- day! Whit -- er than snow, Lord, Wash me just now, As in Thy pres -- ence Hum -- bly I bow.", "prose": ["Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!", "Search me and try me, Master, today!", "Whiter than snow, Lord, Wash me just now,", "As in Thy presence Humbly I bow."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Wound -- ed and wea -- ry, Help me, I pray! Pow -- er\u2014 all pow -- er\u2014 Sure -- ly is Thine! Touch me and heal me, Sav -- iour di -- vine!", "prose": ["Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!", "Wounded and weary, Help me, I pray!", "Power\u2014 all power\u2014 Surely is Thine!", "Touch me and heal me, Saviour divine!"]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Hold o'er my be -- ing Ab -- so -- lute sway! Fill with Thy Spir -- it Till all shall see Christ on -- ly, al -- ways, Liv -- ing in me!", "prose": ["Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!", "Hold o'er my being Absolute sway!", "Fill with Thy Spirit Till all shall see", "Christ only, always, Living in me!"]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}